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(Tuesday, October 6, 1981, 12:40 p.m. Egypt Standard Time; during the Assassination of Anwar Sadat) — President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt was shot and killed today by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, dressed in military uniforms, who hurled hand grenades and fired AK-47 assault rifles and Port Said submachine guns at him as he watched a military parade commemorating Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back a small part of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

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As a squadron of jets flew overhead in formation, a military vehicle halted in front of the reviewing stand, and six of the men jumped out, hurling stun grenades and firing machine guns.

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Sadat was airlifted to a military hospital, where eleven doctors operated on him. He died nearly two hours after he was taken to the hospital.[18] Sadat’s death was attributed to “violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in the chest cavity, where the left lung and major blood vessels below it were torn.”

Ten other people were killed, another 28 injured in the attack.

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The surviving assassins would be tried and then executed on April 15, 1982.